As expected, all those rumors were totally unfounded. The Canon R1 is not coming any time soon!

I told you previously to not trust all those specs you read on the web, and I told you my trusted sources did not get ANYTHING about a possible Canon R1 release any time soon. Latest rumors do now say that we will get first a new R5II in late Spring and the R1 sometimes after that.

What does this mean for Sony?
With the upcoming major A1 firmware update

I got confirmation that the lens will be priced just below the $3,000 mark.

Sigma 500mm f/5.6 specs:

• Lightweight lens…less than 1,5kg and so the lightest telephoto prime lens you can buy.
• Very fast AF on Sony A1 (lens has linear motor)
• The lens sharper than the Sony 200-600 G
• very low chromatic aberration
• Coming for Sony E and Leica L mount cameras
• Price just under $3,00

PetaPixel reports about a funny marketing battle between Canon and Sony. Lats week Canon USA claimed to be the number 1 in the mirrorless world. But Sony gave PetaPixel a call and told them this:

“This year, Sony received numerous #1 claims from the Circana/NPD agency, as we do every year,” Sony tells PetaPixel .

As noted, Sony cites Circana/NPD (it’s one company that used to go by just NPD), a private firm that tracks sales and sells that information to

Earlier this week I reported about the Sony discounts on Type A cards but there are also major discounts on their TOUGH SD cards:

• $60 off on the 256GB SD card sold by Amazon and also here at BHphoto .
• $36 off on the 128GB SD card sold by Amazon and also here at BHphoto .

Rebates on TOUGH CFexpress Type A cards series sold by Amazon (Click here) .

• $170 off on the 640GB card sold by Amazon and also

Damn what a surprise! Around February 21 (day varies according to timezone) Sigma will announce two new lenses:

• 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS | Sports
• 15mm F1.4 DG DN DIAGONAL FISHEYE| Art

And that 15mm f/1.4 is a never seen before kind of lens. Nobody ever made such a fast Full Frame Fisheye lens before. The only lenses coming close are the Olympus 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye PRO (it’

Yodobashi released the official sales date for the second part of January:

Top 10 camera sales:

1. Sony α7C II body
2. Sony A9III
3. Sony α7 IV with kit lens
4. Sony α7C II with kit lens
5. Sony α7 IV body
6. Canon EOS R6 Mark II Body
7. Nikon Z 8
8. Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C
9. Sony α7R V body
10. Nikon ZFc with kit lens

Top 10 lens sales:

1. Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di

Sony 100-400mm GM firmware update ( Download here ). Benefits and Improvements

• Adds support for continuous shooting with AF/AE tracking up to a maximum of 120 images/second when used with the ILCE-9M3 camera body
• Fixes an issue where, after updating to Ver. 04 , the AF (autofocus) and MF (manual focus) do not work after setting the camera shooting mode to S&Q mode or 4K video mode

You now get 10% off on everything at Ulanzistore (Click here) and on some deals on the Amazon Ulanzi store .

Reminder: $129 for the Ritz 256GB SD card sold by Amazon . Best V90 pricing yet!

Sony A9III at BHphoto . Amazon . Adorama . FotoErhardt . Fotokoch . Calumet . WexUK .
Sony 300mm at BHphoto . Amazon . Adorama . FotoErhardt . Fotokoch . Calumet . WexUK .
Sonny A9III Vertical Grip at BHphoto . Amazon . Adorama . FotoErhardt . Fotokoch . Calumet . WexUK .